Quotes About Effort

Jule believed that the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. She believed that the best way to avoid having your heart broken was to pretend you don't have one. She believed that the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say.

Bounce, effort, and snark. Contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. Sugar, curiosity, and rain...

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it!

We aim to please Miss Steele

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

All heroic endeavour, and all that is known as art, assumes that there is such a background, just as all practical endeavour, when the world is to our taste, assumes that the world is all.

Don't act. Or act better.

Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead to nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have moved mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of a man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

They had all passed up that narrow, rich staircase at Wickham Place to some ample room, whither he could never follow them, not if he read for ten hours a day. Oh, it was no good, this continual aspiration. Some are born cultured; the rest had better go in for whatever comes easy. To see life steadily and to see it whole was not for the likes of him.

Bunny, you've had your wind bagged at footer, I daresay; you know what that's like?

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

Success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service.

Work never killed anyone. It's worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we'd just settle down and do the work.

Your success will always be measured by the quality and quantity of service you render.

we can achieve nothing without paying the price.

But what we plant it must return to us.

Goal achievement is hero's work.